Planning: Southeast Alaska Research Coordination for Community Engagement

随着环境变化在高纬度地区迅速发生，阿拉斯加东南部农村和部落居民的传统和文化生活方式正在经历重大变化。此外，居民也敏锐地意识到北极科学研究的影响，但经常感到与在他们社区工作的研究人员脱节。该规划项目将支持锡特卡声音科学中心(SSSC)和阿拉斯加州中央理事会特林吉特·海达印第安人部落，通过向与该地区小、农村和部落社区合作的科学家提供交流培训，改善参与和合作。这笔规划拨款将用于制定一项沟通战略，加深和加强阿拉斯加东南部居民与在该地区工作的科学家之间的关系。该地区与佛罗里达州一样大。科学传播培训计划将侧重于为科学家提供参与的实用技能，与阿拉斯加农村社区合作和在农村社区内工作的方法，学习文化上合适的传播技术，并与当地知识建立联系。讲习班将由一个综合团队领导和开发，其中包括土著文化承担者、一名阿拉斯加科学传播专家、一名阿拉斯加记者和在该地区工作经验的科学家。这些规划工作将探索和评估向科学家提供沟通培训的有效方法，可能导致整个阿拉斯加州的更广泛努力。更广泛的影响包括制定战略，改善科学家和生活在阿拉斯加的人之间的沟通和合作。它还将使更广泛的科学界受益，使科学家和学生接触到共同制作和交流的概念，目标是建立一个允许不同公民接触和理解科学思维和科学方法来解决社区问题的未来。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

With environmental change occurring at a rapid rate in higher latitudes, Southeast Alaska rural and tribal residents are experiencing significant changes to their traditional and cultural way of life. Additionally, residents are also keenly aware of the influence of scientific research in the Arctic, yet often feel disconnected from the researchers working in their communities. This planning project will support the Sitka Sound Science Center (SSSC) and Central Council Tlingit Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska to improve engagement and collaboration by providing communication training to scientists working with small, rural, and tribal communities in the region. The planning grant will be used to develop a communication strategy that will deepen and strengthen the relationship between Southeast Alaska residents and scientists working in the region, an area as big as the State of Florida. The science communication training program will focus on providing scientists with practical skills for engagement, approaches for working with and within rural Alaska communities, and learning culturally appropriate communication techniques and connecting with local knowledge. The workshop will be led and developed by an integrated team, including Indigenous culture bearers, an Alaskan science communication expert, an Alaskan journalist, and scientists with experience working in the region. These planning efforts will explore and evaluate effective ways to provide communication training to scientists, potentially leading to broader efforts across the State of Alaska. Broader impacts include creating strategies to improve communication and collaboration between scientists and those living in Alaska. It will also benefit the broader scientific community by exposing scientist and students to the concepts of co-production and communication with the goal of building a future that allows a diverse citizenry to access and understand scientific thinking and scientific approaches to community problems.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.